The dining adventures of a vegetarian and her non-vegetarian partner.....and whatever else I feel like blogging!

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Chocolate Coca Cola Cake

I saw this recipe in a book I borrowed from the Library - "Sue Lawrence's Book of Baking", and just had to try it.....it turned out well - a deliciously moist chocolate cake.... (co-incidentally, we got home today after buying a new dvd player, and I popped in the "Nigella" dvd, which wouldn't play on our other dvd player, and Nigella made a version of this same cake....)

Chocolate Coca-Cola Cake from "Sue Lawrences Book of Baking"

250g Self Raising Flour

3 heaped tablespoons cocoa powder

1/4 teaspoon bicarb soda

280g caster sugar (recipe actually calls for golden caster sugar, but I haven't seen that anywhere)

Slowly melt butter and cola in a saucepan, then slowly add this to the dry ingredients along with the milk, eggs and vanilla, stirring all the time.

Once thoroughly but gently combined, pour mixture into the prepared tin and bake for about 40 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean (it took a little longer than 40 minutes in my oven). Leave in tin on a wirewrack for about 10 minutes, then remove from tin. Allow to cool completely.

To make the icing : melt butter along with cola and cocoa in a saucepan. Pour this mixture into the icing sugar and beat until smooth. Ice the cooled cake. I decorated the cake with coke bottle lollies.